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sr I ' 4' If i I I - i i i f i I i i I 1 A' 'I i i (CASH JJT ADVAKCI) One Copy, One Year, W. G. BURKHEAD, . Editor. : All .correspondents are hereby notified that to ijisare the insertion of their Com uiunicatipns they; must furnish us with their bonq fide name and address, which we obligate tjo keep in strict confidence. Write viJtf on OTje side of the sheet. I j; The YUjst is in no wise j responsible for the view of its correspondents. Address ail communications to -'? . THE TOBACCO PLANT, 1 ! r Dtjkham, N. C. --r-j- CURFEW MUST NOT KING TU-M(iHT, Jl SlowlvH England's pun was ""Ratting o'er the ! hill-tops far away, j ) -Filling all the land with beauty at the close : of; one sad day. ! - 1' j : And the jlast rays kissed the forehead of a I - man and maiden fair -. He with ifootsteps slow and weary, she with : sunny iioaung nair; .! I i , j lie withjlM)wed head, sad and thoughtful, she t i f j with li all cold and white, p Struggling to keep back the'marniur4-: . : "Ciirfew must not ring to-night," ' . "Sexton,f Bessie's white lips faltered, point ing to the prison old, i : With iM turrets tall and gljomy, with ito wtlls dark, tdamp, and cold," -: "I've a Iqver in that prison, doomed this very night to die, . . ; ' i f . At the ranging of the Curfew, and no earthlv help is nigh; 1 i! j J'romwell will not come till sunset," and her j lis grew strangely white As she breathed the husky whisjier: "Cjirfew must not ring to-night " f'Bessie,"j calmly siwke 'the sexton, every I . word pierced her voting heart Like the piercing of an "arrow, like a' deadly -.1 ; pisoned dart I j " 'Ixmg. ling years I've rung the Curfew from jUat gloomy, shadowed tower ' I Every evening, jiwt at: sunset, it has told the j' ; . twilight hour; S j i I have dne my duty tvr, tried to do it just f ! ana ngut, r in v . - Now I'm old I will not falter T ' Oirfew, it must ring to-night." . Wild her eyes and pale her features, stern n; "and white her thoughtful brow, fAs within her secret bo m j Bessie made a -solemn vow. j " ( j '.-jShe had listened while the judges re;ul with- w flutra'tear or sigh : ' " " i "At the ringing of .the Curfew, Basil Under-, : wihm! must die." .' . i ;.' i ! 1 ;And her! Breath came fast and faster, and her , eyes grew large and bright ; : In an undertone she murmured:- "t ; s . "( "ucfew must not. ring to-night.", . - With (juick step she bounded forward, sprung f : within the old church door, f Left thejold man treading slowly paths so oft tie d trod betpre;' p y Not one moment paused the maiden, hut with - r eve and cheek atrlow!' I . Mounted up the gloomy tower, where the bell sung to and fro I j I . j As she climbed the dusty ladder on which fell - ; no ray of light, : j ". ; Up and up her white lips saying: -. j j '"Curfew must nut ring to-night." j She has reached the topmost ladder; o'er her j ! hangs the great, dark bell; j Awful is the gloom beneath her, like the path way down to hell; 7' j Lo, the ponderous tongue is swinging 'tis the hour of Curfew now, And the sight ha chilled her bosom, stopped ' her breath, ajd-paled her brow. ; Shall she let it ring? No,! never! 'flash. her - 7 ' e-es with sudden light, As she springs, and grasps it firmly r i : "Curfew shall not ring to-night!" Out sherswung far out; the city seemed a sjieck of light below,! i' There 'twixt heaven and earth suspended as : the bell swung to and fro, And the! sexton at the bell-roie, old and deaf, " heard not'the lell, 1 j 8aily thought, "Tliat twilight Curfew rang young Basil's funeral knell."' - 8till the maiden clung more firmly, and with trembling lijis so white, Said to iush her heart's wild throbbing: -Clirfew hall not ring to-night It was o'er, the lelf ceased swaying, andlhe i maiden steppetl once more ; ' Firmly On the dark old ladder where for hun ; dred years before j ' Human foot had not been planted. ' The brave : deed that she had done ' ' : . 8hoUld be told lonfr ac-ts after, as the ravs of . " setting sun I ; Crimson all the sky with lieauty ; aged sires, ' with heads of white,' ' Tell the eager, listening children, "Curfew did jnot ring that night", O'er the distant hills came Cromwell; Bessie sees him, and her brow," I-ately white with! fear and anguishj has no anxious traces now. I At his feet she tells her story, shows her hands ai bruisea and torn; I ; -And herj face so sweet and pleading, yet with sorrow pale and worn, "; . - Touched his heart with sudden pity r Jit his eves with misty light:! ; "Go! your lover lives,". said Cromwell,. "Curfew shall not ring to-hight.".; Wide tliey flung tlip massive portal ; led the prisoner forth to die All his bright young life before him. 'Neath the darkening English sky ,' i Bessie comes with living footsteps, eyes aglow with lovtS-liirht sweet ; : KneeUng on .the turf beside him, lays his par- " 'i don at his feet. I ; . In his brave, strong arms: he clasped, her, kissed the face upturned and white, Whispered, "Darling, you have saved me Curfew will not ring to-night: jRoPE IIartwick Thorte. OFF THE , TRACK TfOW OFT ON AG A IX, TO Dr. Talmasre's Sermon, Preached Sundaj 3IoniingV Ieo, ith. " rf.-4-rH 1 r ' - 'When shall 1; awake? I Will seek it yet j again. "-Iroverbs 25:55. . j j ; ; i With an insight into huma.it na ture such as lip other man ever reached, Solomon, in my text, , sketches the mentajl operations of one who, having stepped aside from the path of rectitude, : desires to return. With hi wish for something better lie said:: "When shall I i awake ? When shall T come but of this horrid nightmare of iniquity ?" But seized upon by uneradicated ! habit f nd forced down hill by his passions he cries out : "I will seek it yet again. I will try it once more " Our libraries j are adorned by an elegan ; literature addressed to young men, pointing lout to them all the L dangers and perils of life complete maps of the voyage, showing all the rocks, the tyiicksands,' the shoals. But suppose a man: has already made shipwreck ; suppose he is already off the track ; suppose he i has already gone astray, how is he to get tack? j I propose to-address myself? this morning to such. There - are those in this audience-who, with every passion of their agonized soul, are ready to hearsuch a discussion. They compare themselves with what they were ten years ago, and cry out I from the bondage in which they are incarcerated. Now, if there be any in this house, come with an earnest purpose, yet feeling they are beyond : the pale of Christian sympathv, and v that the ermon can 'hardly be ex- pec ted to address them, then, at this ' moment, I give them the right hand, and "call them I brother. Look up. There Is glorious and . ' TRIUMPHANT HOPE : r you yet I sound the trumpet ot 3spell deliverance. The church is i -1 - - $i:5o. L..-r ' . l. -r . . i r . i nw r v - - - i i i j i i i i i i ii i j i i i i i i i i i ta.i lit ii! i i i i ,' iiriiii k i i i i i i - ' - -1 ' ! t- ; ' 1 : I .... , f " ' . VOL. XV. NO. 50. ready to spread a banquet at vour return, and the hierarchs of heaven" -to fall into line of hapnered proces sion at the news of your emancipa tion. So far as God may help me, I propose to show what are the obsta cles of your return, and then how you ate to surmount these obstacles. The first difficulty in the way of your return is the force of moral grav itation. Just as there is a natural law which brings down to the earth anything you throw into the air, so there is a corresponding moral grav itation. In other words, it is easier to go down than it is to go up ; it is easier to dojvrong than it is to do right. Call to mind the comrades of your boyhood days some of them good, some of them bad. Which most affected you ? Call to mind the anecdotes that you have heard in the last five or ten years. Some f them are pure and some of them impure. Which the more eas ily sticks to your memory ? During the. years of your life you have fortjned certain courses of conducts some of them good, some of them bad. To which stvle of habit did vou the more easily yield ? Ah ! un friends, we have to take but a ' mo ment, of self-ins pection to find out that there is in all our souls a force of moral gravitation. But that grav itation may Ik? resisted. Just as you may pick up from the: earth some- thing l and Jiold it-in- yyux hand toward heaven, just so, by the power ot God s grace, a soul fallen may, be Jifted toward peace, toward pardon, toward heaven, r orce ot moral grav. itation is -in every one of us, but there is a power in God's grace to overcome that force of moral gravita tion. The next thing in the way of your return is the power of evil habit. I know that -there are those who say it is very easy for them to give up evil habits. I do not believe them, litre is a man given to intoxication. He knows it is; . DISGRACING HIS FAMILY,' destroying his property, ruining him, body, mind and soul. If that man, being an intelligent man, and loving his family, could easily give up that habit, would he not do so? The fact that 'he does not give it up proves that it is hard to give it up. It is a very easy thing to sail down stream, the tide carrying you with great force; but suppose you turn the boat up stream, is it so easy then to row it? As long as we yield to the evil inclinations in our hearts, and our bad habits, we are sailing down stream, but the moment we try to turn we put our boat in the rapids just above Niagara, and try to row up st -"nm. Take a man given to the habit of using tobacco, as most of you do, and let him' resolve to stop, and he finds it very difficult. I would as soon dare to put my right hand in the fire as once to indulge it. Why? Because it was such a terrible strug gle to get over it. Now, let a man be advised by his physicians to give up the use of tobacco. He. goes around not knowing what to do with himself. He cannot add up a line of figures. He cannot sleep nights. It seems as if the world has turned upside down, s He feels his business going to ruin. Where he was kind and obliging he is scolding and fret ful. The composure that charac terized him has given way to a fret ful restlessness, and he has become a complete fidget. What power is it that has rolled a wave of woe over the earth and shaken a portent in the heavens ? He has tried to stop smoking ! After awhile he says : "I am going to do as I please. . The doc tor doesn't understand mv case, I am eroins back to mv old habit." And he returns. Every thing assumes its usual composure. His business seems to brighten. The world be comes an attractive place, to live in His children, seeing the difference, I hails the return of " their father s crenial' disposition.. What wave of color has dashed blue in the sky, and greenness into the mountain foliage, aiid.the glow of sapphire into the sunset? What enchantment has lifted a world of beauty and joy on his soul ? He has gone back to smoking. f Oh ! the fact is, as we all know in our own experience, that habit is a taskmaster ; as long as we obey it it does not chastise us, but let us re sist and we find that we are lashed with' scorpion whips and bound with ship cable, and thrown into the track of bone breaking juggernauts. During the war of 1812 there was a ship on fire iust above Niagara Falls, and then, cut loose from its moor-! ings, it came on down tnrougn ine night and tossed over the falls. It was said to haVe been a scene bril liant beyond description. Well, there are thousands of men ON FIRE OF EVIL HARIT, coming down through the rapids and through the awful night of tempta tion toward the eternal plunge. Oh, haw hard; it is to arrest them. God only can arrest . them. Suppose a man, after five or ten or twenty years of evil doing, resolves to do right ? Why, all the forces of darkness-are allied against him. He cannot sleep nights. He gets down on his knees in the midnight and cries, "God help me !" He bites his lip. He grinds his teeth. He clenches his fist in a determination to keep his purpose. He dare" not look at the bottles in the window of a wine store. It was one long, bitter, exhaustive, hand to hand fight with inflamed, tantalizing and merciless habit When he thinks he is entirely free, the old inclina tions pounce upon him like a pack of hounds with their muzzles tearing away at theflanks of one poor rein deer. In Paris there is a sculptured representation of Bacchus, the god of revelry. He is riding on a panther at full leap. Oh, how suggestive ! Let every one who is speeding oh a n v fx ni n r rn vstvsy i "HERE SHALL THE PRESS bad ways understand he is not rid ing a docile and well broken steed, but he is riding a monster, wild and bloodthirsty, going at a death leap. How many there are who resolve on a better life and say : "When shall I awake ?" but, seized on by their old habits, 'cry : "I will try it once more ; I will seek it yet again !" Years ago there were some Princeton students who were skating, and the ice was very thin, and some one warned the company back from the air hole, and finally warned them entirely to leave the. place. But one young man with bravado, after all the rest had stop ped, crted out : "One round more !" He swept around, and went down, and was brought out a corpse. My friends, there are thousands and tens of thousands of men losing their souls in that way. It is the one round more. I have also to say that if a man wants to return from evil practices society repulses him. Desiring to reform1, he says : "Now, I will shake off my j old associates, and I will find Christian companionship." And he appears at the church door some Sabbath day, and the nisher greets him with a look, as much as to say : "Why,j yu nere ' Yu are the last man I ever expected to see at church ! Come, take this seat right down by the door "instead of saying: "Good morning: I am glad vou 'are here. LCome, I leyt)W1rrs'tte'sea1;, right up by the' pulpit." Well, the prodigal, not yet discouraged, ENTERS A FRAYER MEETING, j I and some Christian man, with more zeal than common sense, says : "Glad to see j you. The dying thief was saved, and I suppose there is mercy for you !" The young man, dis- gustedj chilled, throws himself back on his dicnitv : resolved he never will enter the house of God Perhaps not quite fully disgusted aDout reiormation, ne siues up ov some liighly respectable man he used to know,; going down the street, and immediately the respectable man has an errand down some other street. Well, the prodigal, wishing: to return, takes some member of a Christian association by the hand, or tries to. 1 he Christian vouni man looks at him, looks at the faded ap parel and the marks of dissipation, and instead of giving him a warm grip of! the hand offers him the tip end of the long fingers' of -the. left hand, which is equal to striking man iii the face. Oh, how few Christian people understand how much force, and gospel there is in a good, honest handshaking! Sometimes, when vou haye felt the need of encourage ment, nd some Christian man has iaken you heartily by the hand have you not felt, that thrilling through every fibre of your body, mind and soul, an encouragement that wis just what you needed? You.doi not know anything at all about this unless you know when a man I tries to return from evil courses of conduct he runs against repulsions innumerable. We sav of some man, he lives a block or two from the church or half a mile from i i i rrti i tne cnurcn. mere are people in our crowded, cities who live 1,000 miles fr6m church. Vast deserts of difference between them and the house of od. The fact is WE MUST KEEP OUR RESPECTABILITY, though ithousands and tens of tho- thands perish. Christ sat with pubr licans and sinners. But it there came to i the house of i God a man with marks of dissipation upon him people almost threw up their hands in horror, as much as to say : "Isn't it shocking?" How thee dainty, tastidious Christians in all our churches are going to get into heaven I don't know, unless thev have an especial Jtrain of cars, cushioned and upholstered, each one a car to him self! They cannot go with the great herjd of publicans and sinners. 0 ye, who curl your lip with scorn at the" fallen, I tell j-ou plainly, if you had been ; surrounded by the same influences, instead of sitting to-day amid the cultured, and the refined; arid the Christian, you would haye been a crouching wretch in stable or! ditch, covered with filth and abomination ! It is not be cause yoii are naturally any better but because the mercy of God has protected vou. Who are you that trough tup "in Christian circles, and watched by Christian parentage, you should be so hard on the fallen ? I think men also are often hin dered from return by the fact that churches are too anxious about their membership, and too anxious about their denomination, and they rush out when they 'Bee a man aboui to give up his sin and return ,to God and ask him how he is going to be baptized, whether by sprinkling or immersion, and what kind ot church he is going to join. O, my friends it is a poor time to talk about Pres byterian catechisms, and Episcopa liturgies, and Methodist love-feasts and Baptistries, to a man that is com ing out of7 the darkness of sin into the glorious light ot the gospel. W hy, it reminds me of a MAN jpROWNING IN THE SEA, and a life;boat puts out for him, and the man in the boat says to the man out f the boat: "Now, if I get you ashore, are you going to live in my street?" First -get him ashore, and then talk about the non-essentiais o religion. I Who cares what church he joins, if he only joins Christ and starts for heaven ? O, you ought to have, m v brother, an illumined face and a hearty grip for every one that tries to turn from his evil way. Take hold of the same book with him though his dissipations shake the book, remembering that he that con verteth a 'sinner from the error o his way shall save a soul from death and hide a multitude ot sins, Now, I bave shown you these ob THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNA WED BY INFLUENCE DURHAM N. C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15 stacles because I want you to under stand I know all the difficulties in the wav : but I dm now to tell vou how Hannibal may scale the Alps, and how the shackles may be unriv eted, and how the paths of virture orsaken may be, regained. First of all, my brother, throw yourself on God.j Go to Him frankly and earnestly, and tell Him those habits you have, and ask Him if there is any help in all the resources of omnipotent love, to give it to you. Do not go with a long rigmarole peo ple call prayer, made up of "ohs" and "ahs" and ''forever and forever aniens." Go to God 'and cry for help! help! help! and if you can not cry for help just look and live. 1 remember in the late war 1 was at Antietam, and I went into the hos pitals after the battle, and I said to a man: "Where are you hurt?" He made no answer, but held up his arm, swollen and splintered. I saw where he was hurt. the simple fact is, when a man has a wounded soul, all he has to do is to hold it up before a sympathetic Lord and get it healed. It does not take any long prayer. Just hold up the wound. Oh ! it is no small thing, when a man is nervous, and weak and exhausted, coming from his evil ways, to feel that God puts TWO OMNIPOTENT ARMS ajjpjnd about him ancLsays : "Voatjp man, 1 will stand by you. lire mountains may! depart and the hills be removed, but 1 will never fail you. And then, as the soul thinks the news is too good to be true, and cannot believe it and looks up in God's face, trod lifts his right hand and takes an oath, an affidavit, sav ing : "As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of him . that dieth." Blessed be God for such a gospel as this! "Cut the slices thin, said the wife to the husband, "or there will not be enough to go all around for the children cut the slices thin." Blessed be God there is a full loaf for every one that wants it; bread enough and to spare. No' thin slices at the Lord's table. 1 remember when the Master Street hospital in Philadelphia was opened during the war a telegram came saying: "There will be three hundred wounded men to-night, be ready to receive them," and from my church there went in some twenty or thirty men and wo men to look j alter these poor wounded fellows. As they came, some from one part of the land, some from another, no one asked whether this man was from Oregan, or Mas sachusetts, or irom .Minnesota, or from New York. There wa a wounded soldierj and the only ques tion was how to take off the ragi most gently, and put on the bandage, and administer i the -cordial. And 1 1 ' i 1 T T 1 woen a soui comes to uoa, lie does not ask where you came from or what vour ancestry was. Healing for all wounds.1 Pardon for all your troubles. Ihen also i counsel you, if you want to get back, to quit all vour bad associations.: One unholv inti macy will fill vour soul WITH MORAL DISTEMPER. In all the ages of the church there has not been an instance where a man kept one evil associate and was reformed. Among the 1,400,000,KX) of the race, not one instance. (Jo home to-day, open your desk, take out letter paper, stamp and envelope, and then write ,a letter something like this : "My old companions : I ptart this 1ay for heaven. Until I am persuaded you will join me in this, farewell.'' Then sign your name, and send the letter with the first post. Give up your bad companions, or give up heaven. It is not ten bad compan ions that destroy a man, nor five bad companions, nor three bad. com panions, but one. What chance is there for that young man I saw along the street,' four or five young men with him, halting in front of a grog shop, urging him to go in, he resist ing, violently resisting, until after a while they forced him to go in? It was a summer night, and the door was left open, and I saw the process. They held him fast, and they put the cup to his lips, and they forced down the strong drink. What chance is there for such a young man ? I cotinsel you aisoseek Christian advice. Every .Christian man is bound to help you. If you find no other human ear willing to listen to your story of struggle, come to me, and I, will, by eyery sympathy of my heart, and jevery prayer, and every toil of my hand, stand beside you in the struggle jfor . reformation, and as I hope to have my own sins forgiven and hope to be acquitted at the judgment seat of Christ I will not betray you. j First of all, seek God ; then seek jChristian counsel. Gather up the energies of BODY, MIND AND SOUL, and appealing to God for success, de clare this day feverlasting war against all drinking habits, all gaming prac tices, all houses of sin. : Half-and-half work will amount to nothing ; it must be a Waterloo. Shrink back now, and you are lost. Push on,and you are saved. A Spartan general fell at the very moment of victory, but he dipped his finger in his own blood and wrote on a rock near which he was dying : "Sparta has conquered." Though your struggle to get rid of sin may seem to be al most a death struggle, you can dip your finger in your own blood , and write on the Rock of Ages : "Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ" Oh, what glorious news it would be for some of. these young men to send home to th'eir parents in the country these holidays which are coming. They go to the postoffice every day or two to see wh ether there are any letters from you. How anxious thev are to hear! You '1 1 ! might send them for a holiday nres ent this season a book from one jbf our best publishing houses, or a com plete wardrobe from the importer's palace, it would not please them halt so much as the news vou might send home to-morrow that yoil had givm your heart to God. I know how lit is in the country. The night combs on. The cattle stand under te rack through which burst the trusses of hay. The horses iust having frisked up from the meadow at tie nightfall, stands knee deep in the bright straw that invjtes them to He down and reift. The perch of te hovel is full of fowl, their feet warm under the feathers. In the old farm house at night no candle is lighted for the flames clap ; their hands about the great black log, and shake the shadow of tle group up arid downthe wall. Father and mother sit there for half an hour, saying nothing. I wonder what they afre thinking of. After awhile the father breaks the silence and says : "Well, I wonder where our boy is in town tjo night?" and the mother answers: "In no bad place, I warrant you ; .e always could trust hinvwhen he was home, and since he has been away there have been so inany prayjqjrs offered for him, we can trust htfii still." Then at 8 o'clock for tbiy retire early in the country thev kneel down and eonuiiend yoq tiV that uod, who watches in country and in town, on tne land and on tne sea. Some one said to a eral: "What was the Grecian proudest mi ment in vour life He thought ;? moment, and said : .'Tlie proudest moment in my life was when 1 sent home word to my parents that I luijd gained the victory."" And the proud est and most brilliant; moment n your life will be the moment whtjm you can send word to your parents that youVhivc CONQUERED YOl lfuvfL HABITS, by the grace -of God, and becone eternal victor.. Oh, despise not pa rental anxiety ! ji: The time will come when you will have neither lather or 'pi other,- aijid you will go around,the' place whee they used to watch you, and find them gone from the house, and goe from the field, and gone from tle neighborhood. Cry as loud for for giveness as you may over the mound ih the churchyard, they will not ati swer. Dead ! dead ! And then vou will take out the white .lock of hair that was cut from your mother's brow just before they buried her, and you will take the cane with whufh your father used to walk, and you will think and wish that you hald done just as they wanted you to, and would give the world if yob had never thrust a pang through their dear old hearts. God pity the young man who has brought d$ grace on his fathers name ! Gc pitv the voting man who has broken his mother's heart ! Better if he had never been born better if in the first hour of his life, instead of being laid upon the1 warm bosom of maj ternal tenderness, he had been cof fined and sepulchered. : There is tip balm powerful enough ; to heal th heart of one who has ; brought paj rents to a sorrowful grave, and who wanders about through the disma cemetery rending the hair and wring ing the hands and crying : "Mother mother!" Oh, that to-day by al the memories of the past and by al the hopes of the future.' you would yield your heart to dod- May youi fatner s God and vour mother s (iod bevour God forever. Allow Us to Say Amen. Webster's Weekly. There is nothing at times tbnc makes us sodespair of the progeessj of the gospel, as the difficulty with which it makes its wav into the edi torial sanctums of the secular press ; and strangely enough the more ex tended their information in the field of politics, the less the, newspapers seem to know about religious mat ters. Exchange. This little waif goes directly to'-a point which we have often looked it the non-religious and; the irrelig ious character of the secular press. One of the great needs of the hours a larger numbers of secular editors of decided moral and religious con victions. Charlotte Ballot, You are right. ; Yes. Only by a Jury of His Pees Can a Man be Convicted of Any Violation. j - 1 Lincolton Press. Will Mr. Richmond; Pearson lie allowed to take his seat in the next Legislature ? The Constitution veijy plainly says that the sending or af- Lcepting a challenge to fight a duH disqualifies a citizen from holding office. The fact that the grarid jury of Buncombe failed to findjja true bill against Mr. ; Pearson for challenging Gen. Jones to fight-a duel does not remove the disqualifi cation nor does it stop action on tlie part of the House, which is trie judge, according to the Constitution, of the qualification of -its members, j Sound Democratic Doctrine. i New York Star It is no idle talk of disposing pt the surplus so long as taxation re mains the same. The surplus mult accumulate so long as the taxes con tinue. Therefore, the best way to put a stop to the surplus and' avoid an otherwise inevitable 'panic which must result from collecting so much money from the people every ye4r' and hoarding it in the treasury, is to stop collecting it Let lit remain ih the pockets of the people, where it will surely circulate, instead of pil ing it up in the government vaults where it can't spread.; Reduce the tares. j j AND: UNBRIBED BY GAIN. 1886. What They Say About It. TRULY AND SOUNDLY AMERICAN. , New York Herald The President's message is a clear, business-like, unpretentious expia tion bf the affairs of the nation a truly arid soundly American State paper. It reports peace and pros perity; peace at home and with foreign nations, and a redundant revenue and overflowing treasury. It is a good message clear,, plain, not too long, and- the facts it sets forth: are such as may make every American justly proud of his coun try and happy that he belongs to it. If the gentlemen in Congress will agree together to carry out Mr. Cleve- j land-s recc mmendations and sugges tions they willdo themselves credit and will stand better with their con stituents and the country than many of them do now. I DEMOCRATIC TO THE CORK. i New York Star. The annua official communica tion bf President Cleveland to Con gress, which fye print in full, is a complete and comprehensive State paper. It omits nothing important, touches upon nothing trivial, and is clear and decisive in its recommen dations. Moreover,, it is Ucinocvaii tcUhei core a strong party document which the people who elected Mr. Cleve land! will read with discernment and contentment. The main body of the paper is founded upon the special inquiries and suggestions of the heads of th-i various departments who compose Mr. Cleveland's Cabinet, showing his close supervision of the general func tions of an economical and efficient iovenmieiit, and an entire harmony of 'administrative policies. PATRIOTIC, STRAIGHTFORWARD AND BUSINESS-LIKE, New York Tinny. The second annual message of President Cleveland is a very plain presentation to Congress of "informa tion i concerning, the state of the Union" and of recommendations for such' legislation as appears "neces sary and expedient" The President gives evidence of his special soci tude;for the laboring and agricultu ral interests of th'e country, both in his discussion of the effect upon them of the revenue i policy and his re newed reference to the possibility -of pronioting arbitration in labor dis putes by national action. His refer ence to civil service reform shows that he does not in the least swerve from his earnest faith in the value of the system established. He makes an admirably clear and concise statement of its significance and effect. On the whole the message is one to which hardly any exception can fairly be taken, being unpreten tious; patriotic, straightforward and business-like. SUCH AS ALL OOOO PEoPLK CAN ENDORSE. Danvilje Register. President Cleveland's message is a well written, business-like paper,and deals! with public questions in a frank, intelligent and fearless man ner. ; The message is "in the main such as all good people can endorse and we are very much gratified with the manner in which he deals with the tariff' question. EMINENTLY PLAIN AND BUSINESS-LIKE. Wilmington Star. . The document seems to us to be eminently plain and business-like. It is a calm, clear presentation of our relations with foreign Govern ment's, with such suggestions and recommendations as appear neces sary to meet difficulties and remedy defective legislation. 1 COVERS THE GROUND. Wilmington Review. ' It appears to cover amply such ground as it was needed to go upon. I iv view of the present perfectly peaceful aspect of our relati ns with foreign power it necessarily dwells almost exclusively upon matters of domestic interest and polity. The tariff',' the surplus in the Treasury, silver coinage, fortifications and pen sions are the subjects most specially treated. In regard to the former the President is unmistakably plain in Ins recommendations of a revision and reduction of the present tiriff and his arguments are conclusive. A MASTERFUL CONCEPTION OF THE TRUE ISSUES OF THE DAY. Charlotte Chronicle. The more we read the Presidents j message the more are we impressed i with its soundness. 1 here is a mas terful conception of the true issues of the day manifested in every matter .idiscussed. Even in that part devo ted to loreign affairs there is evi dence that not alone the hand of the Secretary of State, as is usually the case, penned the sharp passages. In the twenty odd months that Mr. Cleveland has had his coat off and been at work, he has been at the ;same time the hardest worker and the closest student bf his cabinet, and in his admirably written mes sag we see the results of hisxlose ap plication. SPEAKS WITH USUAL FORCE AND PRE CISION. News & Observer. Touching tariff reduction ' our Democratic executive speaks with his usual force and precision. He. holds rightly that the government of which Americans boast has for one of its main objects the security of ?very citizen in the enjoyment of his earnings with the least possible di piinution for the public needs. This object the Republican high tariff certainly does not reach, and so the President justly refers to that tariff which exacts" more of the people's substance than, is necessary to meet the just obligations of the, govern ment and the expense ot its econom XMiV i-ltn.s UMAX'S MKSSACiK. . $1.50 PER ANNUM. ical administration, as '-ruthless ex- ' tortion and a violation of the funda mental principles of free govern ment" SOLID ox THE TARIFF. Kinston Free Press. The President is certainly solid on the tariff question. He stotes in his message that the income of the' gov ernment is now a great deal larger than the expenses attached to run ning it, and recommends that the tariff' be reduced. We earnestlv hope that the present Congress will do some good work in this direction. CONTAINS MANY EXCELLENT SUGGES TIONS.' GoliMioro Messenger. The message of President Cleve land to Congress is an able paper. It treats a great variety of topics, and contains many excellent sugges tions that commend themselves" to hearty public approval. STURDY COMMON SENSE. Shelby New EraJ Ihe Presidents message has been' given to the press and it is upon the whole an admirable document. A great deal of ground has been gone oyer and the message deals largely in statistics. The President's treatise on the tariff' is somewhat exhaustive and is marked throughout by that sturdy common Sense that has" char- .iictexizys, all.of ..his utt-ancos. . If the President has made a reputation for one thing more than another, it has been for the use of clear cut, straight forward, unambiguous English. EVIDENTLY ' 15 KEN PREPARED WITH CARE. Eilitor Tobacco Plant. We think it is an able document. It has evidently been prepared with care. ' No position is lightly taken. There is nothing frivolous in it. It deals he nestly and boldly with im portant questions, and shows its author to be a man Tiot afraid to speak his sentiments. Let the Boys Help. Why' is it tlat the boys are" allowed to sit around the house do ing nothing, while their overworked mother is struggling against nature and fate to do about half the work. Only the other day we saw three large, able-bodied boys lounging about the house, not knowing what to .do with themselves, while their mother, tired and pale, was trying to do the work for a large family and company alone. Not a boy's work to help about the house ? Why not? Is there anything about washing dishes that will injure him or which he. cannot learn to do well, or about making beds, or sweeping, or sotting the table, or washing or ironing, or cooking a plain meal of victuals? On the contrary, there is much to benefit him in such work, the most important of which is the idea that it isn't manly to let the "weaker ves sel1' carry all the burdens, when it is possible for strong, young hands to help. Most boys would gladly help in the house if thev were asketLto do so, and were taught to do the work properly. Many a smart boy wants to help his tired mother, but doesn't know how beyond bringing in the wood and water, and shoveling a path through the snow. That done, she tells him to go and play, while she plods wearily on. Not a boy's work? For shame! It is a positive harm to a boy's moral character to allow him to think it right to be idle while his mother is staggering under burdens. Let the boys help, and those who can't get heln "for love or money, as tl j 1 1 0 f U11V.IJ II 1 1 l their troubles disap- to us, will se pear. We Like to be Ituincd That W ay. New York HeruM. . The public debt has been de creased a little over three millions during the month of November. Mr. Plaine never fails to make the point that the country, under Demo cratic rule, is going to ruin 'at a speed in comparison with which that of a lightning express train is a mere tortoise pace. Well, if paying off the debt and booming business is Mr. Blaine's idea of ruin, trie people, like Oliver Twist, will hold out their plates and ask for more. We lke nothing so much as being ruined in just that way. An Irishman Laughed Before lie Tried to Put the Bull's Nose in the Uust. Greeikboro North State. It amuses us to see with what, a self satisfied-air. the Democratic pa pers are preparing to fill Ransom's place. There is no more chance of a Democrat being elected two years hence, than there is for Tom Holt to be Governor. The Republi cans will have the legislature, and will elect a man who will accomplish something for the State. Probably Brew a Blank in Early & Beauregard's Little Vk-heiiie. IiHnValley Erbor.J We trust a law will be passed by the next Legislature making the publishing of a lottery advertisement a misdemeanor punishable by fine and imprisonment. Go From Home to Hear the News Greensboro Workman. Parties in Durham are to furnish a suit of clothes to the brakeman on the train who adds "City" to the an nouncement that Durham is reached, and the clothes are to be charged to -the advertising accounts of the par ties in question. That is the Question. Wilmington Str. The people have said "Let the taxes e reduced?' The President says "Let the taxes be reduced." Now what will Congress do ? , RATES FOR ADVERTISING: 1 inch, one insertion, 9 75 1 inch, pne month, 2.00 1 inch, three months, . . " " 3 00 1 inch, $ix months, " 4 00 1 inch, o j columh, thtee months, ! '. 1 column, sir months, , j columin, one year, 6.00 10.00 17.50 30.00 17.50 30.00 55.00 30.00 55.00" 100.00 6.00 10.00 column, three months, J column, six months, columi, one year, 1 column, three months, 1 columi, six months, ...... 1 column, cne year, ..... ... . 1 column, one insertion!...'." 2 columjns, one insertion,... pace, to suit advertiser rhh,l tnr ;n oi-viuiiut-c nu aoove rates. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Cluerius has been respited. His' execution will take place January 14th, tS87. Hot.. Abram S. Hewitt will serve as Congressman until January 1st, when lie will assume the duties of mayoiof New York. Alfrjed Sully is the new President of thel Richmond &. Danville and W est Point Terminal rail wav nnd warehouse company. McQuade's trial still d MOM it J clrtM length along. Dav after dav the se lection of the furnih joke's. les fine opportunities for stao Coi; in Ben. Folsom, looking as nattv. as a pretty woman's new bon- net, said he really couldn't thinlr of gettinl married on the nerouisites of us Consulate office. ! S M. Bailey, ex-State Treasurer of relink ylvania,has been sued by that State to the bank mono tor S70,( HJO ; money belonging Mate that he deposited in a which broke and lost the Mrk Langtrv is takinsr rank with r the greatest actresses. She is work ing b ird, and is achieving wonder- mi success, "rreddie' seems to ha vej dropped ut of iter-1& ad now she is tree lrom all breath of scandal. The President has appointed Ceo. A. Allen to be I'nited States Attor ney for the Western district of Penn sylvania, vice William A. Stone, suspended for offensive partisanship. The P resident has signed Mr. Allen's commission. Jay (iould denies that there is any truth whatever in the story of his al leged deal with Carrett, of the Balti more it Ohio railroad, as to the ex change of the Wabash railroad sys tem tor the Baltimore A: Ohio tele graph system. Emperor William has requested the artists of Berlin to modify their programme for the proposed efew on the ninetieth anniversary of his birth. There will be no public demonstra tion, as it is understood that the Em pcVor is- desirous that the day be passed quietly. Representative J. J. Adams, of New York, who is at present a mem ber of the House Committee on Ap propriations, is a candidate for Mr. Hewitt's placgUpon the Committee on Ways and 3t cans on that gentle man's resignation. Mr. Adams ex pects the support of the New York 1 Kmoeratic delegation. Col. Win. Lamb has entered suit against the Richmond Whig in the sum ofjjlO.lKMJ for libel, for publish ing the recent card of Congressman (I eo. I). Wise, in which Wise severe-' ly -denounced Lamb because -of al-, leged offensive personal allusions of the latter in a speech in the late can vass. The rule is returnable on the first Monday in January. The bill introduced by Senator Evarts to bridge the East River, New York, (feclares that a bridge across the East. River .between New York City and Long Island City, N. Y-.f, constructed in Accordance with the provisions of an act of the legisla ture of New York State incorpora ting the Long Island Bridge Com pany, shall be a lawful structure and highway when completed. It is provided, however, that the bridge shall not impair the navigation of East River, and that its construction shall be under the supervision of the United States Corps of Engineers. If all the children to be born in the White House at Washington are as good looking as the one who first blinked his red eyes at daylight there, then they may be congratu lated. Rather curiously, no child was ever born in any presidential family during their residence at Washing ton. Weddings there have been not a few, and some deaths, alas ! very sad ones, too but no births. Pres ident Lincoln's youngest and be loved boy faded out of life there, and his sad browed father mourned him ever after. Presidents themselves haye died there, and been buried with the utmost pomp of woe. Rut of the three events which are of su-. preme importance alike to all hu manity, the fciitiatory one seems to have been skipped in tile halls of the nation's chief executive. The peo ple an; hoping sincerely that the rule will be changed during the present term. If it is, it will be this administration's highest success. Hal T. Walker was born in the White House in 1H45, during the adminis tration of President Polk. Green Ikjto North Stale. The evidence of Democratic mem 1k.ts of Congress confirms the accu racy of Mr. Sullivan report of Dis trict Attorney Benton's speech at (JalLltin. There is no reasonable doubt that Mr. Benton is guilty of the vulgar,abusive and disloyal utter ances against the Administration under which he received his ap pointment But no- harm will be done by awaiting Mr. Benton's de nial, if he wishes to make one, or by taking time to secure incontestable . evidence that he is guilty as charged. But when the offense is proved it is hihly essential to the dignity of Mr. Cleveland's Administration, and to the good of the Federal service, that Mr. Benton be at once placed in a position of "greater freedom and less responsibility." The trammels of office and of official decency are irksome to such a nature as his. It will be an awkward thing perhaps for the President to remove Mr. Benton so soon after reinstating him, but we can assure the President, with i all respect, that Mr. Benton's retention will be a great deal more awkward than his dismissal. New York Star. t wiuiuifcmmaDove rates. .1 i
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